>> and voices on both sides of the issue responded forcefully. >> the fact that there may be some pain during the process does not offend me, i don't think it offends most people in oklahoma. why are we designing the most pleasant death possible for people who have imposed the most unpleasant death possible? >> i want them to sit back and think if that was your child, would you have sympathy? >> it took two hours for this man to die. this guy snored on his way to hell. >> it wasn't an execution. this man was killed by malpractice of a doctor, was killed by intelligence of the states. >> the death penalty is a government program and the government takes a week to deliver a piece of mail. what gives us the idea that the government can make life-and-death decisions with life and dead-accuracy? >> lockett should be given the same mercy he gave his victim, stephanie, and that would be none. >> our constitutional rights are